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Fear in the bones and the right to the city, or: The Monster at the End of the Block 22 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
A piece I was commissioned to write earlier this year for the catalogue for Juha van ‘t Zelfde’s exhibition Dread: The Dizziness of Freedom, opening at De Hallen Harlem in the Netherlands on 06 Septem...
Feeling our way forward: Touch and the new reading 7 Jun 2013 | 08:23 pm
An article I was commissioned to write for the Touch issue of What’s Next magazine. What does it mean for a text to be digital? In principle, it can be replicated in perfect fidelity, and transmitted ...
Stealthy, slippery, crusty, prickly and jittery redux: On design interventions intended to make space inhospitable 20 May 2013 | 01:56 am
From Mitchell Duneier’s Sidewalk, 1999. The context is a discussion of various physical interventions that have been made in the fabric of New York City’s Pennsylvania Station: On a walk through the s...
On augmenting reality 7 May 2013 | 08:19 pm
The following is the draft of a section from my forthcoming book, The City Is Here For You To Use, concerning various ways in which networked devices are used to furnish the mobile pedestrian with a l...
The canonical smart city: A pastiche 26 Mar 2013 | 10:05 pm
Consider this a shooting script for one of those concept videos so beloved of the big technology vendors. If you find my reading here tendentious, I can assure you that every element of the scenario I...
The quantified self 18 Jan 2013 | 11:00 pm
Sometime in the early 1980s — I can’t have been any older than 14 — I tagged along with my father on a trip he made to New York to commission some work from the artist Agnes Denes. You shouldn’t get t...
A fuller and more balanced toolkit 8 Jan 2013 | 11:36 pm
A conjecture I’d love to get your reaction to. I’m wanting to explicitly position human institutions as tools, and ask of each two things: what are they best at, and what contribution vital to the fun...
The City Is Here For You To Use: 100 easy pieces 3 Dec 2012 | 11:50 pm
On the first of January, 2008, I promised you a book about the things I saw happening at the intersection of emerging networked information technologies with urban place. Well. It has been a long, lon...
Thought for the day 1 Dec 2012 | 12:05 am
The notion that the minimally diagnostic criterion of a networked object is that “it knows the right time” is very curious, in that it refers to what may be the primordially alienating regime to which...
Further to notes on a diagram of Occupy Sandy 27 Nov 2012 | 09:00 am
Yes, enumerate the carriage parts — still not a carriage. When you begin making decisions and cutting it up rules and names appear And once names appear you should know when to stop. - Tao te Ching, t...
